Brenda Sutherland B.Soc.Sc. (Psych) AHHA

Brenda founded The Awakening Group (formerly known as Awakening WoMan) in 1993. Her clear vision was to empower each individual to live their true potential. Since then The Awakening Group has grown to offer programs for organizations and businesses to bring teams together, effectively communicating to deliver results across the board.

Brenda B.Soc.Sc.(Psych) AHHA is a Holistic Counsellor, Trainer and Consultant with her practice grounded in over 20 years experience. She is the founder and Director of The Awakening Group accredited training programs and workshops conducted throughout Australia.
Over the past 20 years Brenda has taught at universities, lectured at conferences, appeared on TV and radio, written for magazines and conducted seminars throughout Australia and NZ. She has facilitated numerous workshops for private, corporate and governmental organizations on personal growth and professional development.
Throughout her career Brenda has combined her personal commitment to her own self growth and extensive, yet unique, professional training including Psychology, Art Therapy, Tantra, Eco-psychology, Soul Centred therapy, Kinesiology, Family & Organizational Constellation, Aromatherapy, Massage, Essences, The Work of Byron Katie, Emotional Freedom Technique and more.

Brenda is a dynamic counsellor and educator who employs her intuition and professional knowledge to gently guide every individual in living their truth.

You have the power within to transform and live your hearts desire. Brenda creates an opportunity to take you and your experience in relationships, life, career and love a step further in authenticity to be the person you dreamed yourself to be. Discover and live new possibilities within yourself, relationships, career, sexually, health, with money and life.

Individual sessions, couple counselling and workshops are available to support you in moving into the freedom of being the real you. Issues of anxiety, fear, stress, anger, grief, sexuality, illness, relationships and much more are addressed with each session personally tailored to transform issues standing in the way of being the more of you.

Judith Richardson ESTEAM Communications, VIC

Judith is a holistic counselor with more than 30 years of experience working in personal development, communications, health and in both the community and corporate sectors. Through her practice Judith seeks to reconnect people with their inner knowing and life’s purpose so they can achieve greater peace and personal freedom. Her holistic approach encompasses a wide range of methods including Holistic Counseling, Individual Family Constellations, The Work of Byron Katie and the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)

Judith’s nationally accredited Effectiveness Training Programs have been popular for many years. As a highly skilled facilitator Judith delivers powerful messages in a warm, relaxed and engaging manner. She inspires positive change and empowers personal growth. Her courses include Parent Effectiveness Training, Women’s Workshop, The Work of Byron Katie, Effectiveness Training Skills for the Workplace, Conflict Resolution in the Workplace, Organisational Constellations, Family Constellation, Visualisation and Emotional Freedom Technique. Her courses are designed to deliver skills and impart a philosophy which enables people to create effective and lasting relationships, whether it be in the workplace in families or in education

“In today’s world we are often disconnected from our source of inner wisdom, and life can become full of struggle and uncertainty. Working with Judith is rather like a journey, some short, others longer but always with heart and soul.” Brenda Sutherland The Awakening Group

Rosie Stave BSc Ed (NSW)

Since her first introduction to The Work in 1995, Rosie has been passionate about this tool for freedom. She lived and worked with Katie for 2 years setting up the Center For The Work in Barstow, California. Rosie was the primary facilitator at The Center For The Work when Katie was unavailable. Since her return to Australia in 1998, she has been offering workshops, retreats, private sessions and evenings of The Work throughout Australia and New Zealand. She is a certified facilitator of The Work and brings a depth of wisdom and truth, honesty and compassion, love and laughter to this life changing work.

Ana Lamaro BHthSci. Dip Hom. PractDipAc GradDipClinAc

As a veteran of both Homoeopathy and Acupuncture, Ana brings a wealth of clinical experience to her private practice and teaching on the body/mind, a subject at the very heart of holistic health-care practice. She takes a psychodynamic approach to her classical homoeopathic practice, and is currently engaged in research in this field. Ana has a background of teaching in Homoeopathy, having lectured and tutored at the Australian College of Natural Medicine, the Southern School of Natural Therapies and at Victoria University. Through V.U., she had the opportunity to develop Homoeopathic curricula at both Bachelor's and Master's degree levels.

Catherine Ingram M.A. Fam.Th. Grad.Dip. App.Sc. (Psych Nurse)

Catherine's work in the community as a family therapist, includes working with individuals, couples and families dealing with a wide range of issues. She is a practicing Nichiren Buddhist whose life philosophy is dedicated to world peace through education and cultural diversity.
Catherine draws upon a number of therapies including Narrative Therapy and the work of Michael White, David Epston and Johnella Bird and Contextual Family Therapy. Her interest in the latter lead her to Family Constellations which inspired her to do intensive training in Germany with Bert Hellinger (Constellation founder) and his students in 2003. Since then she continues to trains with leading trainers from Germany and has facilitated constellation workshops for the past 3 1/2 years. She is currently running an Introductory Program in constellation work with Dr. Chris Walsh in Melbourne.